'Bombs might have been planted at Bangalore', suspects investigating agency

Special investigative teams that are probing the twin bomb blasts that occurred on Thursday morning at the Chennai Railway station on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express suspect that the bombs could have been planted at Bangalore.

Sources said that the investigating agency had rushed a team of it to Bangalore to take up leads. The bombs might have been fitted with a timer devise at Bangalore. The agency is studying the footages to see if the suspects actually travelled in the train. The ill-fated train left Bangalore on April 30 at 23:35 hrs arrived on May 1 at 07:10 hrs and was delayed by nearly an hour. Ten minutes after its arrival, two low intensity bombs were exploded in the course Swathi, a TCS employee was killed and leaving 14 injured.

National Security Guard team lead by Lt.Col.Balakrishna arrived here on Thursday night as part of their investigation in the issue.